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NGT fines Delhi govt. ₹2,232 crore for poor waste management

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has imposed a fine of ₹2,232 crore on the Delhi government for damage caused to the environment due to improper solid and liquid waste management. It has also constituted a panel under Lieutenant-Governor V.K. Saxena to monitor the Capital’s solid waste management. In its order a Bench headed by NGT chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel asked the Delhi government to pay the fine within a month and credit it to a ring-fenced account from which funds would be withdrawn only for waste management. Leader of…

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ORISSA HC POSER ON BIOMEDICAL WASTE DISPOSAL

The Orissa high court has directed the state government to file a status report on the disposal mechanism of biomedical waste at the medical colleges in Cuttack, Burla and Berhampur. The court gave the order while hearing a PIL, filed by social outfit Maitree Sansad in 2003. The PIL alleged that the indifferent attitude of the government in adopting prescribed norms and methods for disposal of bio-medical waste has put the patients’ life at risk in the three medical college hospitals, and the people at large. The high court, while…

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India Implements New E-Waste (Management) Rules Effective From 1st April, 2023

Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has issued the E-Waste (Management) Rules, 2022 which shall be in effect from the 1stApril, 2023. The official notification contains chapter-wise rules and regulations, responsibilities, procedures, modes and ways to tackle e-waste management. Specifically, the rules shall adhere to every manufacturer, producer rebuilder, dismantler and recycler indulged in the manufacture, sale, transfer, purchase, refurbishing, dismantling, recycling and processing of e-waste or electrical and electronic equipment including their components, consumables, parts and spares which make the product operational. The executing committee shall be liable…

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MCD’s 6-member core committee to inspect garbage hills soon to deal with Delhi’s garbage problem: Delhi Mayor

Newly elected Aam Aadmi Party-led Municipal Corporation of Delhi’s Mayor Shelly Oberoi on 22 February said that she will carry out inspection of landfill sites in the next three months. Apart from this, Oberoi said that the new MCD will work on 10 guarantees given by Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal and the 6-member core committee will soon inspect the garbage hills to deal with Delhi’s garbage problem. Speaking to the media, she said, “We’ll work on 10 guarantees given by Delhi CM. The 6-member core committee will be elected as…

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Chandigarh – New Integrated Solid Waste Management Plant to be constructed by 2025

A high-powered committee of the UT administration led by UT adviser Dharam Pal announced the integrated solid waste processing plant would be constructed in two years and be operational for 25years, directing stricter penalties be imposed for non-fulfilment of environmental and emission norms and accepting the recommendations of the CSIR-National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI). The committee asked the civic body to incorporation provisions of heavy penalties in the rules for the selected bidder if even a single environmental rule was violated while operating the newly-planned waste management plant. “After…

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Non-compliance of solid waste management norms: Rs 10-lakh fine slapped on 8 establishments in Chandigarh

The Municipal Corporation has imposed a fine of over Rs 10 lakh in total on eight bulk waste generators (BWGs) of the city for their failure to comply with the solid waste management norms. The amount will be added to their respective water billing cycle. Nine BWGs were served final notices in December. The last report filed by the field staff of the MC on January 16 found that all BWGs were non- compliant, except Punjab Engineering College (PEC), Sector 12. Following the report, the civic body issued an order…

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Assam CM lays foundation stone of North East India’s first compressed biogas plant project in Kamrup

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma attended as chief guest at the foundation stone laying ceremony of North East India’s first-ever compressed biogas plant project at Domora Pathar in Sonapur under Kamrup (Metropolitan) district. Being set up by entrepreneurs Pankaj Gogoi and Rakesh Doley under the banner of Redlemon Technologies Private Limited, the plant proposed to be operational from November 2023, will have a production capacity of five tonne-per-day of compressed biogas that would be produced from raw materials such as cattle-dung, municipalsolid wastes, etc. Speaking at the event, Chief…

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KMC whip for waste segregation rule flout

The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has started cracking down on residents who have been provided two separate-coloured bins for segregation of waste but are still resorting to littering the neighbourhood alleys and streets. The member, mayor-in-council, overseeing KMC’s solid waste management (SWM) department, Debabrata Majumdar, said though the civic body had finished distribution of waste bins for segregation in 40% of the neighbourhoods in the city, the complaints about littering continued to pour in. According to the civic plan, the KMC solid waste management department overseers have been asked to…

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Waste management at Char Dham grossly inadequate: NGT

An expert panel constituted by the National Green Tribunal to assess solid waste management on the trek routes of Char Dham shrines, Hemkund Sahib and Valley of Flowers , has said in its report that the infrastructure for waste management at the sites is “grossly inadequate”. “Mule faeces, solid waste and plastic waste can be seen littered around and toilets with soak pits are filled with garbage. The number of public toilets is also far less than the number of pilgrims arriving,” the report’s findings noted. According to the report,…

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PMC To Set Up India’s First Waste-To-Hydrogen Plant in Pune

Pune Municipal Corporation has roped in a private firm The Green Billions Ltd (TGBL), who will set up this plant. The sustainability solutions provider TGBL has entered into a 30-year-long agreement with PMC. TGBL chairman and founder Prateek Kanakia said that this is India’s first attempt to extract hydrogen from waste. By the next year, the plant will treat 350 tonnes of solid garbage every day. “Our plan is to produce 10 tonnes of hydrogen daily from 350 tonnes of solid waste. We are setting up the plant at Hadapsar Industrial…

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